How to format your references using the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J.A. Spudich, Biochemistry. Molecular motors, beauty in complexity, Science 331 (2011) 1143–1144.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Nuttall, C. Dye, Epidemiology. The SARS wake-up call, Science 339 (2013) 1287–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Ladet, L. David, A. Domard, Multi-membrane hydrogels, Nature 452 (2008) 76–79.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Cervelli, P. Segall, K. Johnson, M. Lisowski, A. Miklius, Sudden aseismic fault slip on the south flank of Kilauea volcano, Nature 415 (2002) 1014–1018.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

G. Bunker, D. Thomson, Delivering Utility Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J.N.D. Gupta, Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems: Foundations, Applications and Challenges, Springer, London, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Cannon, Maximally Smooth Diatonic Trichord Cycles, in: E. Chew, A. Childs, C.-H. Chuan (Eds.), Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 43–56.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Fish Oil Supplements Could Prevent The Onset Of Psychotic Disorders, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fish-oil-supplements-could-prevent-onset-psychotic-disorders/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Faces Challenges in Improving Its Financial Condition, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.L. Moore, The Challenge Program: A quantitative analysis of strategies designed to eliminate the achievement gap, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg A New Voice, New York Times (2007) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Inorg. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0162-0134
Scope	Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry